Ayussinte Pusthakam – The Book of Life
2ND March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm
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Produced by: Ravivarma Kalanilayam Language: Malayalam Duration: 1 Hour 50 Minutes |
Three generations…
Son, Father, Grandfather…
Among them there is one Yohannan…
What is sin…? It has to be begun from the Bible itself. It can only be begun but it is varied in the eyes of religion, individual, time and space. Yet they all are one and view spontaneous male female relationships as aberrations.
The Snake and Satan never desert us.
The suppressed sexuality of the Indians…
The mystery it creates when it spits venom…
A dialectical analysis from a land well known for political assassinations and sex abuses.
- Suveeran
SYNOPSIS
Ayussinte Pusthakam (The book of life) discovers and reconsiders the basic issues of sexuality and sin primarily raised by the novel, written by C.V.Balakrishnan. The play stands as an independent text with its dynamic but semantically loaded stream of situations. Committed only to the reality of the psychological realm, the play is a daring attempt to deconstruct the oppressive mechanism of religious orthodoxy. Symbols get fused into the totality of dramatic experience. Emotional intensity suggested through interpretative style of acting makes the play a real sight of directorial sense.
NOMINEES
Best Director & Best Lighting Design: Suveeran
Suveeran, graduated from School of Drama, Trichur, and underwent courses from school of Performing Arts, Pondichery and National School of Drama, New Delhi. Suveeran has directed 30 plays. His play, Agnium Varshavum was selected as the best drama and he was selected as the best director in the Sangeet Natak Akademi amateur theatre competition in the year 2002. In 1997, Udambadikkolam, another play directed by Suveeran was adjudged as the best drama in amateur theatre competition.
Best Script: C.V.Balakrishnan
C.V.Balakrishnan is a vibrant writer representing the post-modern era in Malayalam literature. His novels and short stories encompass the emotional issues related to mass culture, sexual politics, fate of the marginalized and institutionalized religions. One of the most well received writers of present day Malayalam; C.V.Balakrishnan has more than 40 books to his credit. He has been writing film scripts and film criticisms too. He has won several awards including Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Kerala Film Academy Awards.
Best Stage Design: Sunil C.K
Sunil.C.K started his career as a stage designer and an actor. In his earlier years he worked with all meager groups in Malabar and got a special mention for his acting in State School Youth festival 1992. His major works include Waiting For Godot directed by S.Sunil and Premalekhanam, directed by Priyanandanan, the famous film director.
Best Costume Design: Priya
Priya hails from Annur, a village in Kannur district. She chose fashion designing as a career only because of her interest to create her own designs with the element of folk art, especially those representing Theyyam, a popular ritual dance from Kerala. She completed her diploma in fashion designing in 2004 and the play Ayussinte Pusthakam is her debut work.
Best Ensemble
Ravivarma Kalanilayam functioned as a force to reckon with in the movement to propagate the spirit of radical theatre, in the year 1967. By 2005, Ravivarma Kalanilayam founded a theatre group, which focuses entirely on facilitating theatre study and production. Peter Brook was also associated with the Samithi.
